mbleh – the only people who care about the PM living in Canberra, is Canberrans. The majority of Australia doesn’t really care.

If he serves to drive up house prices though, bring out the welcome mat.

Indeed, he neither confirmed nor denied that he would movew to the lodge.

Which in my opinion usually means no, he won’t.

But as I said, does it really matter in the long run? Sure, it would be nice, but there are a few more important issues to address.

rudd is a smmoth operator.

he’ss drip honey in your ear for a vote.

he has more verbal twists and turns than any other pollie bar beattie.

if he shook my hand id count my fingers afterwards.

And from Rudd’s own mouth on one of the news programs…

I guess that means it must be true to some degree.

and reported on the ABC knobnut.

Well gosh, if it was in the Daily Telegraph it must be true.

Pillocks.

This of course assumes Ruddy wins.

Has anyone asked Costello where he’d want to reside, in the event that the man of steel hands over the reins?

So the dog and cat are more important to a potential leader of our nation than the people’s wishes – I’m sure anyone in private industry offered the pay and extra perks the PM’s job brings would compromise on a move to Canberra to gain the other. Let him live in BrisVegas (capital of the state that they say the election will be won or lost in, I note…), but reduce the cost of maintaining/yearly rent for The Lodge out of his pay, plus any associated extra travel from Banana Country to Canberra.

Don’t forget he has young kids as well Thumper, best to keep them in their school (the true believers will also say).

why not rent the lodge out… I heard a rumour once that tex perkins was actually living there.. but i suspected that was bullsht.

Why don’t we sell the Lodge to developers for a crapload of $$, and use that to invest in high performing Asutralian shares. Then we can use the returns each year to pay for (part of) the costs of having a PM that commutes. If the PM wants to live in Canberra, the $$ can be used to rent somewhere nice.

Just an idea – I didn’t say it was a good one.

And the dog beaten to death by one of those massive roos that live there…

Reading a similar story in today’s CT, I had the impression Rudd is leaving the door open on this.

However, whether it’s the door to the Lodge, Kirribilli or the Norman Park mansion, remains to be seen…

And he’s right to worry about the cat & dog; the dog would be OK, but I can foresee a flat cat on Adelaide Avenue in due course.

Rudd is scum. He voted against stem cell research. Stay out of our city I say.

At least this gets rid of the ridiculous, ‘I won’t vote for Howard because he won’t live at the lodge’ issue…

Although you can see the true believers coming up with statements like, ‘Well, Howard did not live there so why should Rudd?’

Frankly it’s not an issue to me. It would be nice if our PM lived here, but if not, then so be it.